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501 [Title] | square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations
502 [Title](1) | Discourse on Virginity is not in regular metre. On this question,
503 IX | with disgrace, and they reject and give pain to the doers
504 XXVIII | and chose the pearl, he rejected the coin-ornaments and snatched
505 XV | of straw, and it brings a relapse of pains every day.
506 [Title] | numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed
507 XXIX | from its owner and does not remain in the treasure of the thief ! ~
508 XLIX | intelligence diminished, they remember the humility of its Youthfulness,
509 XXXII | companion in the day of remembrance, and in the Resurrection
510 XXVI | easy for all, and whose reparation for the Creator of all alone
511 XVI | hast accustomed thyself to repent and again thou sin, thy
512 XXXII | though she have greatly repented. ~
513 XIV | two things : that if he repents it will have wiped out his
514 X | ear to make 5 his hateful reports. His silent wine is talkative
515 [Title](20)| both hero and heroine are represented as the perfection of beauty
516 XLV | is to him a story, and reproof like a tale passes through
517 III | III. For this Old Man is reproved by Nature that teaches and
518 XXIV | seeking that which he did not require, that under pretext of it
519 XIV | 175.] a man has sinned requite him. Wherefore regret comes
520 XXIII | by the contrary are they requited. For [P. 178.] Shechem,13
521 XII | and when the one has been resurrected from it, it is destroyed
522 XXXII | remembrance, and in the Resurrection fear becomes her leader
523 XI | flesh makes it live and resurrects it (this desire), and when
524 IV | with contempt, and him that returns they bind up his wounds;
525 LI | precious, yea, are [P. 188.] revered by reason of the Figure
526 VI | desire ; being ashamed to revert to marriage, they fall and
527 XXXVII | that [P. 183.] by grace has revived our country, and as a sojourner
528 VII | thy Bridegroom sits at the right hand of the Lord of the
529 XI | with a fall, who when he rises lulls to sleep, the desire
530 XXII | field, the brigand Shechem robbed thy treasure. Whither wilt
531 XLV | to him ; despised is the rod, and weak is a stick, and
532 [Title] | pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers
533 XXXII | from herself the pearl that rooted out 17 fear, and to the
534 XIX | They made him drunk and rose up and dragged him away ;
535 LI | reason of the Figure of Royalty, how much more therefore
536 [Title] | the accompanying Syriac. [RP]~ ~
537 XII | dead in secret, and the rubbing of wood with wood brings
538 XXIII | illustration that he who ruins thee is ruined. ~
539 [Title](20)| which to Ephraim was a sad falling-off ! ~
540 XLVII | plunge and emerge,23 like sailors whose ships have been wrecked,
541 [Title](22)| into Syriac of "Aenon near Salim" (John iii 23), where syr.
542 XXXI | XXXI. Keep thy bosom in sanctity that the pure bosom of Paradise
543 LIV | thee that thou art holy, as Sarah also [P. 189.] was holy
544 [Title](10)| mere scribes' blunder, the scribe of the Palimpsest having
545 [Title](10)| Aa. Apparently a mere scribes' blunder, the scribe of
546 XLVII | there and become a great sea ; and lo, arguments plunge
547 | seem
548 XVII | own Bridegroom is one that seeth secret things, [P. 176.]
549 XX | no help." For thine own self, O virginity, who is there
550 X | with his free meals he sells free-men into slavery. The
551 XXXII | blood was baptized and she sent up from herself the pearl
552 XXIV | which he was not hungry served the desire of the flesh
553 LIV | cleanse the temple in which he serves, so a pure Will can cleanse
554 | shall
555 XXXIII | Bridegroom, his holy Blood was shed for thy fault. ~
556 XIX | that he had ill-treated the sheep, vengeance was demanded
557 XIX | demanded in the time of sheep-shearing. [P. 177.] ~
558 XLVII | there is unclean, like a ship that has no skipper, and
559 XLVII | emerge,23 like sailors whose ships have been wrecked, and lo,
560 [Title] | Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in
561 XVII | secret Lord in virginity 8 show the secret things in the
562 L | with the visiting of the sick seal thy footsteps ; paint
563 XXV | clothed in the appearance of sickness that the hand might contemptuously
564 XLIII | and art orphaned on two sides, the True One will have
565 VIII | that if thou pay him his silver the debt impoverishes. ~
566 [Title] | syriac] for [syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it
567 XVI | to repent and again thou sin, thy regret is the signature
568 XIV | immediately [P. 175.] a man has sinned requite him. Wherefore regret
569 VII | to where thy Bridegroom sits at the right hand of the
570 XLVII | like a ship that has no skipper, and when Law like a sailor
571 XXXII | stretched out her neck to the slaughter of the sword, the pure pearl
572 XXIII | captive, in his house they slaughtered him ; and Amnon again, who
573 X | meals he sells free-men into slavery. The belly he has bribed
574 XI | who when he rises lulls to sleep, the desire of whom is deadly.
575 XXX | cherished him with love, and he smote her to destruction. Do not
576 XI | puts on the mouth of his. snare food as a bait; his love
577 VI | fall and are taken in the snares. ~
578 VII | wings, O Virginity, that soar 4 and go up to where thy
579 XXXVII | revived our country, and as a sojourner dwells in our land. And
580 XXXVIII | dwelt in him one full of sores ? 20 ~
581 X | discipleship, in that by all sorts (of means) he will be bestowing
582 XIII | Freedom is as life and as soul to the desires, and by it
583 [Title] | Note of the electronic source~I have moved the footnotes
584 XIX | and the wicked one who sowed in the chamber his harvest,
585 XXXVI | receive stolen seed whose sower is accursed, let not the
586 XXV | hand might contemptuously spare him and so he might strike
587 XXX | of her hearing before his speaking, the door of Paradise would
588 [Title] | quotations or to belong to a special terminology.~Words in italics
589 LIII | youthful vigour, a fair spectacle, carry them, but Old Age
590 XLVI | side through the other. The speech that they pour into him
591 [Title](1) | of a more modern style of spelling. ~The text, both in the
592 XLVI | pours it all out, and it is spilt, because there is no place
593 XLIX | its secret plants of the Spirit. ~
594 XLV | usage is like a treat and spitting in the face like dew. ~
595 XIX | virginity, and he who had spotted it with its blood washed
596 XXXIV | were sealed with the blood sprinkled in the midst of Egypt 18 ;
597 XXXV | were a little wearied in sprinkling it and (as) it comforted
598 [Title] | Words in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded
599 XV | wounds, but this regret is a stalk of straw, and it brings
600 XX | ill-treated in the field Moses the Stammerer,12 the advocate of truth,
601 XIII | that by its will faults stand and by its will sins fall;
602 XIX | saw that as long as he was standing he did not throw, and he
603 [Title](1) | divided up into paragraphs or stanzas, which I have numbered,
604 II | if thou dost make God to stay in thy shrine, thou also
605 LIII | them, one that while yet it stays and alights goes off and
606 XLII | Bridegroom and got in his stead a false one, when thou hast
607 XLV | is the rod, and weak is a stick, and disregarded is the
608 | still
609 XXVIII | whose limbs were carried stones and beryls, but the virginity
610 X | The mouth of the poor he stops with his bread ; with his
611 XV | this regret is a stalk of straw, and it brings a relapse
612 XLVIII | thee and takes away thy strength has dismissed and left thee (
613 XXXII | ascended ; the girl that stretched out her neck to the slaughter
614 XXV | spare him and so he might strike her. He whose desire deceived
615 LII | and its leaves have been stripped off it becomes hateful,
616 XLV | beating is like no beating. Strong fetters are weak to him ;
617 XLVII | good harbour [P. 187.] it struggles with its sailor and loves
618 VI | behind them the shame of stumbling and in front of them hateful
619 [Title](1) | adoption of a more modern style of spelling. ~The text,
620 XII | life it turns to burn the substance that brought it to life
621 X | X. Subtle and cunning is his (the '
622 [Title] | passages, where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics
623 XXVI | rents of her garment workmen sufficed to heal ; but the loss of
624 [Title] | summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments.]~[P.101]
625 [Title] | italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions
626 LII | fruits that is fair in the summer, and when its fruits and
627 [Title](23)| not yet concentrated in Sun and Moon. ~
628 XLVI | altogether ; his teacher supposes that the teaching goes in,
629 XXVIII | but the virginity alone surpassed them all ; wherefore the
630 XLI | impostor and an agitator that surrenders thy fortress, that the captive-taker
631 XXX | poisonous one whose words are sweet ; she cherished him with
632 LI | LI. And if the nailed-up Tablets that the carpenter has constructed
633 X | reports. His silent wine is talkative in those that drink it;
634 XI | One kissed the unclean, to teach that his kisses are a poison
635 XLVI | goes forth altogether ; his teacher supposes that the teaching
636 III | reproved by Nature that teaches and the Book that proclaims,
637 [Title] | or to belong to a special terminology.~Words in italics inside
638 [Title](20)| C.K., Hellenistic-Jewish Texts, No. 7). In this tale, though
639 | therein
640 XLIV | is a pearl that from two thieves flies away to be lost, for
641 XLVII | been wrecked, and lo, the thought there is unclean, like a
642 XIX | hasted and fell, and so threw off and broke the yoke with
643 XIX | was standing he did not throw, and he hasted and fell,
644 XIX | vengeance was demanded in the time of sheep-shearing. [P. 177.] ~
645 XL | the head of families and tongues, thee forsooth, O lonely
646 XVIII | her ; the invalid that was torpid got up to the contest and
647 III | wounds and they heal; on the track of wickedness they bring
648 [Title] | has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac.
649 [Title] | lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps
650 [Title] | regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few
651 [Title](22)| because it also occurs in the transliteration into Syriac of "Aenon near
652 [Title](5) | 1 ? = to transmit. ~
653 XVIII | her enter his den and so trapped her ; the invalid that was
654 XXXIX | old man ; keep thou 21 thy treasure-house from those that are young. ~
655 XXX | find for thyself also the treasure-trove of Eve. that thou mayest
656 VIII | VIII. He impoverished the treasures of great Adam, who with
657 XLI | XLI. Do not trust in wine, for it is an impostor
658 XXXVII | nest, because she cannot turn and build it her wing quickly
659 XXXIV | dwelling within after the type of virginity in peace. ~
660 XXXIV | XXXIV. Lo, therefore the unique Blood bought the virgin
661 XIII | the Most High whose Power upholdeth everything, and if He should
662 XXV | and placed (them) for the uplifted at heart: the serpent was
663 XXXVII | any one persecute her and uproot her nest, because she cannot
664 XLIII | simple Dove 22 that has uprooted her nest and gone forth
665 XLV | his ears ; contemptuous usage is like a treat and spitting
666 V | V. Hearken to Nature and Law
667 XXVIII | virginity. The thief knows thy value, O Virginity, but thou didst
668 [Title](1) | quite faithful, the few variations being almost all due to
669 XLVIII | Youthfulness, mistress of (various) courses (of life), do not
670 XVII | injuries, and do not10 in veils thy own virginity shew to
671 XIX | had ill-treated the sheep, vengeance was demanded in the time
672 [Title](16)| 1 Judges xi 30 ff : syr.vg also has 'Nephtah' for '
673 VI | VI. The humble ones have stolen
674 L | Paint, O Youthfulness, thy victories on thy members, by which
675 LIII | For the limbs of youthful vigour, a fair spectacle, carry
676 VII | VII. How light are thy wings,
677 VIII | VIII. He impoverished the treasures
678 [Title](1) | the piece to the Hymns de Virginitate, printed at the end of Lamy'
679 XXI | for the married women and virgins that were in Midian, he
680 [Title](20)| perfection of beauty and virtue, yet the affair ends in
681 L | charitable acts, with the visiting of the sick seal thy footsteps ;
682 X | it; it babbles in their voices instead of its master. ~
683 [Title] | at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~
684 XXX | Evil One, the pure Garden vomited and cast her out. ~
685 XXXIII | virginity that thy mouth has vowed. Jephthah poured out the
686 [Title](20)| of Joseph and Asenath (E. W. Brooks, The Book of Joseph
687 XXXV | Oh, the blood that was a wall to the treasure of life,
688 XXXV | perfection and thy virginity are walls that keep and are kept;
689 XLIII | whither then will thy gaze wander, a simple Dove 22 that has
690 XIV | faults regret is on the watch to carry witness to the
691 XXII | cunning Amnon stole thy wealth ; thou didst go forth into
692 XXXV | that as they were a little wearied in sprinkling it and (as)
693 XXXVIII | who is there who will not weep that instead of that peaceful
694 VIII | with his money acquired a weight of debt. O Body, do not
695 | whereby
696 XIX | even to adultery, and the wicked one who sowed in the chamber
697 XLV | counsel and teaching of wide-awake hours are dreams to him,
698 XVII | if a man have wronged his wife, her parents shall go forth
699 XXXVII | cannot turn and build it her wing quickly takes up on high
700 VII | VII. How light are thy wings, O Virginity, that soar 4
701 XIV | he repents it will have wiped out his wickedness, and
702 XLVII | and when Law like a sailor wishes to bring it into a good
703 XIII | everything, and if He should withdraw it everything would fall. ~
704 XIV | is on the watch to carry witness to the court of Justice. ~
705 XVIII | in her nest, the healthy wolf that made himself ill deceitfully
706 XXXVI | XXXVI. The married woman wished to die that adultery
707 VII | to the inexperienced is wont to cast his whole property
708 XXVI | The rents of her garment workmen sufficed to heal ; but the
709 XLVIII | desires ; when that which works in thee and takes away thy
710 XXVIII | perceive how much thou art worth. ~
711 XXV | virginity and polluted it, wrath deceived the desire and
712 XLVII | sailors whose ships have been wrecked, and lo, the thought there
713 [Title](1) | from the old MS. before the writing was effaced. Where the transcript
714 XVII | written 7 that if a man have wronged his wife, her parents shall
715 X | X. Subtle and cunning is his (
716 XIV | XIV. The Judge is just, in that
717 XIX | XIX. That Athlete who saw that
718 XL | XL. Be afraid again of Wine
719 XLI | XLI. Do not trust in wine, for
720 XLII | XLII. And when moreover thou
721 XLIII | XLIII. When on this side and on
722 XLIV | XLIV. Thy Pearl is a pearl that
723 XLIX | XLIX. Lighten, O Youthfulness,
724 XLV | XLV. It is easier for him that
725 XLVI | XLVI. For there is not in his
726 XLVII | XLVII. For filled and heaped and
727 XLVIII | XLVIII. O Youthfulness, mistress
728 XV | XV. Learn, O Body, Repentance
729 XVI | XVI. The signature is on every
730 XVII | XVII. It is written 7 that if
731 XVIII | XVIII. In the guise of a lamb
732 XX | XX. If a virgin be ill-treated
733 XXI | XXI. As for the married women
734 XXIII | XXIII. The hunters of thee, O
735 XXIV | XXIV. O Virginity, inexperienced
736 XXIX | XXIX. From the royal jewel-house
737 XXV | XXV. For he asked her for tarts 14—
738 XXVI | XXVI. Tamar rent her tunic, for
739 XXVII | XXVII. Tamar feared to keep silence
740 XXVIII | XXVIII. She was a King's daughter
741 XXX | XXX. Eve 15 the inexperienced
742 XXXI | XXXI. Keep thy bosom in sanctity
743 XXXII | XXXII. Jephthah's 16 Daughter
744 XXXIII | XXXIII. Jephthah's Daughter wished
745 XXXIX | XXXIX. Let youthfulness be afraid
746 XXXV | XXXV. Oh, the blood that was
747 XXXVI | XXXVI. The married woman wished
748 XXXVII | XXXVII. Do not leave off, O Body,
749 XXXVIII | XXXVIII. And when the friendship
750 LI | painted have become precious, yea, are [P. 188.] revered by
751 XIX | threw off and broke the yoke with cohabitation, and dared
752 [Title](22)| where syr. C-vg. have 'En Yon, while syr. S and the Arabic
753 XXXIX | treasure-house from those that are young. ~
754 LIII | Old Age. For the limbs of youthful vigour, a fair spectacle,